I do.

That's all.

Nah! I love Christopher Guest, his films rock. I attempted to make a mocumentry about 'the making of an air band' & only my friends & i really understood it... everyone else was just weirded out. Probably because it ended with a cher tribute tour... *shudders* My friend in drag... *shudders again*

How about you guys?

I like them a lot usually, but I think they work better in a TV series format (The Daily Show/ Reno 911). As feature films they tend to get boring (Best in Show/ Spinal Tap).

No!!! I love Best in show!!!

Get him his BUSY BEE!!!

Ha ha ha...

Waiting for Guffman rocks too. :D

We don't have those shows here... :( But I don't understand how the films could get boring...

they're too long with too few jokes.

I think that a feature length mockumentary is plausable, but I haven't seen a good/great one yet.

...they work more easily as shorter pieces (in my opinion).

I guess I kinda understand where you're coming from... some parts are kind of yawn worthy, but I find comedy in the strangest things...

humor, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Never heard it phrased like that...

That's kinda nice.

I don't find alot of things that usual people find funny, funny.

& I have this annoying analytical thing that I do when I watch a film & nobody can shut me up for days about it. That's why my friends & family NEVER bring up Quentin Tarantino around me. :lol:

What I consider great comedy:
Something that will make everyone (or, at least most people) laugh.
This is a hard thing to accomplish, but when it happens...it's sweet.

I'm analytical too, but don't let that get in the way of enjoying things from a simple and more pleasing perspective.

analysing is good...over-analysing is bad.

Oh, I don't over-analyse. I just tend to go on about things because I always remember something that happened & usually everyone's over it by then.

I need more film loving friends. All of mine suck. :lol:

haha. I'm the exact same way! I have to control myself sometimes, because I'll want to bring up something that happened hours/ days ago and I have new things to say about it :lol:

& if I really enjoy a film, I'll see it like 3 times just to learn everything I can from it.

But I see films all the time just to see them, only now & then do they have an impact on me. Cinema is such a powerful medium & not everyone appreciates it.

Yes! & my friends just always say "Didn't we see that like last week? I'm over it" & the only person I can ever talk to is my lecturer at film school!!!

That's true, but I'm going to say (even as a filmmaker) music is the most important art form in society.

Film is to art what football is to sports. It's the ultimate "team" art. It takes creative collaboration that was never needed in art before. This is what makes movies so great and so extreme! Anyone creative can paint/photograph/sculpt/etc....it takes a group to create a masterpiece film. That's what I like about movies. They (generally) take more time and effort...and have the potential for more meaning and depth than anything else.

So true.

I'm trying desperatly to remember a quote...

"All you need to make art is talent & luck" or something like that... I believe it was said by James Cameron... I'm not exactly sure.

I'm gonna sleep now, but if you write something I'll read it tommorrow. bye :wink:

Cool, good luck with that.

By the way...I'm just gonna say this...I don't know if you're british or canadian, but my reference to football is american football (similar to rugby)...in case you thought I meant soccer (European football)...haha...I'm going to shut up now and go to bed.

Thanks for the heads up mate. In my mini-profile thing to the side it says where I'm from...

Yes, we have rugby here. & soccer is known is soccer.

Once again, best of luck with the whole sleeping thing :lol:

Good night!

Yeah. I saw that right after I posted that...sorry, haha.

Anyway, football is said to be the ultimate team sport because, unlike most sports, one star player can't carry a team to victory. It's truly a team effort...every player is important...hence the analogy to film where every artist (writer, actor, director, etc.) is important.

Something that will make everyone (or, at least most people) laugh.

This doesn't exist. Know matter what the joke, you're gonna find that a lot of people won't laugh. I liked the comment about Humor being like beauty, stick with that. If it's funny to you then it's funny. Unless of course you think Ashton Kutcher movies are funny.

I love Guest's mockumentaries, but I find he's the only one who does it well consitantly. I will say this, however, I'd like to see a mockumentary that actually looks like a real doc (like Blair Witch, only funny).

Poke

I recently saw A Mighty Wind and I was very disappointed. I think Christopher Guest is getting too much money for his films now. He had too many situations where it seemed scripted and rehearsed. Plus the multiple camera angles really killed any sense of realism for me.

Ha ha ha. Ashton Kutcher... That was a good one.

I will agree that 'a mighty wind' was not as good as his previous works. You're right, it lacked sufficiant realism to work in the mocumenrty genre.

I recently saw A Mighty Wind and I was very disappointed. I think Christopher Guest is getting too much money for his films now. He had too many situations where it seemed scripted and rehearsed. Plus the multiple camera angles really killed any sense of realism for me.

Seriously? You know you are the same guy who like Scary Movie right?

Poke

Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Good one.

Scary movie was just... bad.

Are you kidding?! Scary Movie (the first one only) was awesome!

"Bobby's got a baby dick too?"

Great stuff...

No, I'm sorry. Scary Movie was extremely bad.

Oh and for the record, Goat will probably respond with some crack about me liking Urban Legends, and I have to admit that I did enjoy it the first time I saw it, but in my defense I was sitting next to girl that I had a huge crush on and she kept grabbing me when she got scared ... who wouldn't like that. Also, he neglects to realize that I have since denounced my stupid enjoyment of the movie, but he still thinks SM was funny.

Poke

What's bad about it? Just because it's not independent, or what?

Well, I wasn't going to bring up Urban Legends Mr. "It's Awesome" but I guess I will since you're playing dirty. Now, you hear the excuse of "I was with a girl I liked," but really, I could see it in Poke's eyes as he came running out the theater screaming "It's Awesome!" He really did think the movie was awesome.

Basically, Poke doesn't like the Wayans brothers. He's jealous they are making movies and he's ashamed whenever he laughs at their jokes. He also loves all the Scream movies and doesn't like it when they are mocked unless he's the one doing the mocking.

Realistically, it is a different genre of movies that you are discussing. Scary movie is not a mocumentry. So, it is right that he can like a film (even dare I say, Scary movie) because of it's unrealistic veiws in one genre & dislike another film which belongs to a different genre because of it's lack of realism. It is plausible without being particularily contradictive.

& Urban legend was crap as.

Scary movie is not a mocumentry.

Exactly. I don't know why Poke felt the need to bring this up other than to try to discredit my opinions.

Realistically, it is a different genre of movies that you are discussing. Scary movie is not a mocumentry. So, it is right that he can like a film (even dare I say, Scary movie) because of it's unrealistic veiws in one genre & dislike another film which belongs to a different genre because of it's lack of realism. It is plausible without being particularily contradictive.

I agree...I don't see what the two had to do with each other or why Scary Movie was brought up at all.

I guess he was discussing your taste in films in general.

I like all different types of films for different reasons. One reason might be that I think something seems really real while in another film, I might like the aspect of imagination & the use of stories that seem impossible.

One's taste in film cannot be judged by one film they enjoy.

true

I'm also saying that because I like the Harry Potter films. #-o

Hey Mr. Blonde, maybe you and I could talk with QT and get him to work on the new Harry Potter, that might make the films a little more interesting..... :lol:

For the record, I brought up Scary Movie to clue everyone into the mind of Goat. He didn't like A Mighty Wind - an obviusly good film, but he liked Scary Movie - an obviously bad film.

Scary Movie was bad - to me - because it was a comedy that wasn't funny ... in the least ... to me. I thought, most of it's jokes were ripped off from Zucker Brother's movies, and the ones that weren't were really sad, in my opinion. I don't hate the Wayans (in fact, Marlon is a "scream" in The Ladykillers), I just hated Scary Movie.

As was stated, it is okay to like a movie. I nor you can say for sure that a movie is really bad or good. It's all in perception. And no Scary Movie was not a mockumentary, but Goat sucks anyway.

And in closing, URBAN LEGENDS was the Bomb YO!!!!

Poke

I thought, most of it's jokes were ripped off from Zucker Brother's movies,
Zucker directed 3 and 4.

Mr. Blonde, you're on.

Floo powder could be switched with cocaine... *lol* I like it, I like it alot.

Oh & we can throw in some hillbilly rape aswell. Just for fun.
:lol:

And in closing, URBAN LEGENDS was the Bomb YO!!!!

Poke

Ok, I'm going to ignore that!! :?

God!!! I cannot quote!! I'm so retarded...

Just ignore my spasms.

For the record, I brought up Scary Movie to clue everyone into the mind of Goat. He didn't like A Mighty Wind - an obviusly good film, but he liked Scary Movie - an obviously bad film.

See, there he goes again, Trying to discredit my opinion. Well, I've already stated why I didn't like A Mighty Wind, which should be enough for some people but obviously it's not. I guess now I have to say why I found Scary Movie funny. Basically, I hate every teen slasher film that was made after the Scream craze, including Scream. I just absolute hate them, and Scary Movie makes fun of them. It's as simple as that.

I sort of agree, not about liking scary movie, but about disliking teen horror flicks. A good one is hard to find.

I thought, most of it's jokes were ripped off from Zucker Brother's movies,
Zucker directed 3 and 4.

I knew he did 3 ... there's a 4????

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

See, there he goes again, Trying to discredit my opinion. Well, I've already stated why I didn't like A Mighty Wind, which should be enough for some people but obviously it's not.

Quit yer cryin'. You're always tryin' to discredit me.

Poke

There is no 4.

There is no 4.

Yes there is,

http://imdb.com/title/tt0362120/

No there isn't.

If a movie is in pre-production, then it obviously doesn't exist yet. And Zucker couldn't have directed it, because it hasn't been made.

It says

Directed by: David Zucker.

And I believe they shot is already, I am probably wrong.

:-)

I was just saying that because you were using Scary Movie 4 and Zucker to prove a point earlier in the thread, and if all of that is in the future then it really is irrelevent...it doesn't matter anyway though :wink: .

P.S. IMDb says it's in pre...I googled it and that's what other sites said too...It might be in production by now, but it's still not finished either way.

So wait ... is it the chicken or the egg?

Poke

yes.

I watched 'this is spinal tap' again the other day, that movie just get's funnier every time I watch it.

Drop dead gorguess?

That's funny.

That sports Denise Richards and Kirsten Dunst in an underwear cat fight I believe.
:oops:

Poke

Yes poke, it certainly does.

hahaha.. yes.. I am resurrecting a topic from months ago.. because I can.

Drop dead gorguess?

That's funny.
I have that movie on DVD. :D It was on sale for the cheap so I got it. To my surprise, it was actually pretty good. That's the only Mocumentary I think I've seen though. I can't remember any of the other ones.

Gah.. you should.. RIGHT NOW!!

..what're you doing still sitting there?

Gah.. you should.. RIGHT NOW!!

..what're you doing still sitting there?
*hiss* I thought "gorguess" said "Gorgeous". That's what I get for speed reading, I suppose. :blush:

hahaha.. no..you should go see more mocumentries..

I just watched Man Bites Dog the other day, a very good french mockumentary- very dark, a bit like American Psycho... only French.

& I have this annoying analytical thing that I do when I watch a film & nobody can shut me up for days about it. That's why my friends & family NEVER bring up Quentin Tarantino around me. :lol:

what're you talkin' about? we talk about Quentin fairly often hahaha

haha.. you tool.. I made that post ages ago...but my un-filmy friends hate it.

hahaha well i see that now :P

Your mum does.